Query on the development typology of non-canonical/quirky/oblique subjects or subject-like obliques

[Peter Hook]

Dear Ilja,

Modern Indo-Aryan provides a good example of a large family of languages
(hundreds of members) which all have "non-canonical/quirky/oblique subjects
or subject-like obliques".  There is some evidence for their existence in
"Classical" [= epic and scholastic] Sanskrit, perhaps as a reflection of
the Middle Indic or Dravidian languages which were the mother tongues of
Sanskrit writers / speakers of those more recent times. But evidence for
the subjecthood of oblique (especially dative-cased) experiencers in their
earliest attested ancestor, Vedic Sanskrit, is wanting. You may want to
consult the online papers by Hans Hock and the references in those papers
to earlier work:

http://books.google.com/books?id=XCarNNGmOMYC&pg=PA119&lpg=PA119&dq=Hock+%22experiencer+subjects%22&source=bl&ots=bL9Y7FTgbo&sig=LkFm8xBw-mC-CgaxA4VyG3sKtJE&hl=en&sa=X&ei=veyCT_HLDKnE0QGD_p3XBw&sqi=2&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Hock%20%22experiencer%20subjects%22&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=JuauYrzc0MUC&pg=PR7&lpg=PR7&dq="Possessive+Agents+in+Sanskrit?"&source=bl&ots=emOO2bRUB7&sig=sojPnHnFE_teQwv0FnqyRe8p7c4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=5PCCT-a5G4Ho0QGlyuTsBw&sqi=2&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q="Possessive
Agents in Sanskrit%3F"&f=fals

Peter Hook


On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Ilja Serzants <ilja.serzants at uib.no> wrote:

>  Dear colleagues,
>
> I am trying to collect as much as possible data on the evolution (both
> rise and demise) of non-canonical/quirky/oblique subjects or subject-like
> obliques for a typological survey. I am just afraid to unwillingly leave
> out too much out of consideration just by ignorance.
>
> I will be extremely grateful for every reference to (or even a PDF of) a
> case study from any language/language family (except maybe such
> well-studied ones as Germanic languages), not least synoptic papers.
>
> With many thanks in advance,
>
> Ilja
>
>
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